Talk:rhinocerates

RFV discussion

 * Note: this thread was previously at Requests for deletion.

Creation by a banned user (WonderFool). While the origins of this term may be suspect, it is close enough to its derived word so as not to be complete nonsense. However, I cannot verify the ref it cites in the so-called Chambers's twentieth century dictionary though I admit I'm only familiar with this archived version and not the true one in fine print. TeleComNasSprVen 05:48, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Shouldn't this be at RFV? --Yair rand (talk) 05:51, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
 * You're right, I guess. I have moved this thread to there accordingly. TeleComNasSprVen 07:37, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

It's listed as "(obsolete) plural of rhinoceros", but in fact there are sufficiently many hits for rhinocerate itself, which I've therefore just added as an entry. That said, this plural itself doesn't seem to get more than one hit except as a plural of rhinoceros (not obsolete but merely misconstructed), and that on Usenet. So it's a likely (though unattested in Googlable texts) correct obsolete plural, and a modern uncommon incorrect plural. I wish we could keep it somehow, but neither seems to qualify. &#x200b;—msh210℠ (talk) 17:53, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm actually not convinced that meets the CFI, either. Of the English hits at  that I can see enough of to make sense of them, all seem to be translations of a single German inscription, and they're all just copying the word without Englishing it at all. (All the German and French hits also seem to be from that source. The Latin hits seem mostly to be scannos for .) —Ruakh TALK 19:01, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Oh, you're quite right. Thanks for catching that. I'll delete [ [rhinocerate]]. &#x200b;—msh210℠ (talk) 19:18, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

RFV failed, entry deleted. (BTW, this is neither here nor there, but: it seems kind of stupid to me. Octopus means "eight-foot", so its plural is octopodes "eight-[feet]"? Rhinoceros means "nose-horn", so its plural is rhinocerates "nose-[horns]"? Clearly these are exocentric compounds, folks.) —Ruakh TALK 18:28, 13 January 2011 (UTC)